News and news sources : a critical introduction / Paul Manning.
Publisher: London : SAGE, 2001Description: xi, 251 p.; 24cm001: 13846ISBN: 0761957979; 9780761957973; 0761957960; 9780761957966Subject(s): Reporters and reporting | Attribution of news | Journalistic ethicsDDC classification: 302.23Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
News and News Sources offers a fresh introduction to the sociology of news.
News and News Sources: reviews new research in the rapidly expanding field of political communication, drawing upon material from Britain, Europe and the USA; provides a clear introduction to the processes of news production and the implications of the rise in global electronic news communication; and assesses the various theoretical frameworks available for analysing these developments including fuctionalism, pluralism, Marxism, political economy, hegemony theory, discourse theory and postmodernism.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-245) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Why Worry about the Sources of News
- Theorizing News Media and News Sources
- Journalists and News Production
- Proprietors, Corporations and Politicians
- Political Elites, the State and Categories of Knowledge
- Considering the Powerful and Politically Marginal
- News Media Politics and the Politically Marginal
- News Audiences and News Sources
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